Retail Banking Jobs

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 658 573
Rank change year-on-year +105 -85 +306
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 117 194 498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.21% 0.45%
As % of the General category 0.34% 0.35% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 45 162 280
10th Percentile £25,313 £57,988 £51,833
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,577 £85,000 £70,588
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +20.42% +4.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,539 £89,852
90th Percentile £98,084 £122,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.64% +5.77% +33.10%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 34,161 55,731 76,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.59% 60.15% 69.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17,617 38,619 40,825
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -9.52% +5.00%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Retail Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Retail Banking.

Salary trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 2 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +106 107 £83,577 -1.67% 94
London +43 78 £72,500 -17.14% 76
UK excluding London +148 37 £85,000 +23.64% 38
North of England +95 13 £25,625 -66.28% 9
Work from Home +132 12 £40,313 -35.50% 38
Yorkshire +74 9 £25,625 -67.88% 3
Scotland +97 8 - - 16
South East +104 7 £90,000 +260.00% 3
Midlands +59 5 £90,000 +51.12% 7
West Midlands +27 5 £90,000 +51.12% 1
North West +41 4 £94,637 +58.91% 5
South West +96 2 £95,000 +34.61% 2
East of England +42 2 £70,000 +12.00%

Retail Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.98%) SAS
2 4 (3.42%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.42%) Mule
3 3 (2.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (2.56%) CMS
3 3 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 56 (47.86%) Azure
2 48 (41.03%) AWS
3 33 (28.21%) GCP
4 15 (12.82%) Snowflake
5 11 (9.40%) GitHub
6 9 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 9 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.69%) CloudFront
6 9 (7.69%) Route 53
7 8 (6.84%) Datadog
8 6 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.71%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) Firewall
1 1 (0.85%) LAN
1 1 (0.85%) Network Security
1 1 (0.85%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (0.85%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.85%) VoIP
1 1 (0.85%) WAN
1 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.66%) Data Lake
1 23 (19.66%) Metadata
2 9 (7.69%) DocumentDB
2 9 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 9 (7.69%) Redis
2 9 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.42%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (3.42%) Apache Hive
3 4 (3.42%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.71%) Power BI
6 1 (0.85%) Big Data
6 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (7.69%) Git
2 6 (5.13%) GitLab
2 6 (5.13%) Grunt
2 6 (5.13%) Jasmine
2 6 (5.13%) Mocha
2 6 (5.13%) webpack
3 3 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 99 (84.62%) Banking
2 84 (71.79%) Finance
3 52 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (23.93%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (23.08%) Financial Institution
6 19 (16.24%) Social Skills
7 9 (7.69%) Retail
8 6 (5.13%) Social Science
9 5 (4.27%) Investment Banking
10 4 (3.42%) Legal
10 4 (3.42%) Marketing
10 4 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (3.42%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.71%) Automotive
11 2 (1.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (29.91%) Senior
2 33 (28.21%) Lead
3 31 (26.50%) Architect
4 23 (19.66%) Data Architect
5 17 (14.53%) Developer
6 14 (11.97%) Software Engineer
7 11 (9.40%) Lead Software Engineer
8 10 (8.55%) Technical Leader
9 9 (7.69%) .NET Developer
10 8 (6.84%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (5.98%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.98%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (5.13%) Audit Manager
12 6 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (5.13%) Lead Developer
12 6 (5.13%) React Developer
12 6 (5.13%) Risk Manager
12 6 (5.13%) Senior Architect
12 6 (5.13%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.24%) RESTful
2 17 (14.53%) GraphQL
3 16 (13.68%) Kafka
4 15 (12.82%) AngularJS
4 15 (12.82%) React
5 10 (8.55%) .NET
6 6 (5.13%) Ajax
6 6 (5.13%) Bootstrap
6 6 (5.13%) Chai
6 6 (5.13%) CSS
6 6 (5.13%) Enzyme
6 6 (5.13%) Jest
6 6 (5.13%) LESS
6 6 (5.13%) Next.js
6 6 (5.13%) OAuth
6 6 (5.13%) OAuth2
6 6 (5.13%) OpenID
6 6 (5.13%) Redux
6 6 (5.13%) Sass
6 6 (5.13%) Semantic UI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.69%) Distributed Applications
2 9 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (6.84%) Public Cloud
4 6 (5.13%) Mainframe
4 6 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.42%) Derivative
5 4 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.56%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.69%) Windows
2 2 (1.71%) Android
2 2 (1.71%) CoreOS
2 2 (1.71%) Linux
2 2 (1.71%) Unix
2 2 (1.71%) zOS
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (60.68%) Agile
2 52 (44.44%) Asset Management
3 41 (35.04%) Data Management
4 33 (28.21%) Business Development
4 33 (28.21%) Innovative Thinking
5 29 (24.79%) Coaching
6 28 (23.93%) Analytics
7 27 (23.08%) Commercialisation
7 27 (23.08%) Migration
8 26 (22.22%) Mentoring
9 23 (19.66%) Cost Management
9 23 (19.66%) Data Architecture
9 23 (19.66%) Data Migration
9 23 (19.66%) Data Modelling
9 23 (19.66%) Data Privacy
9 23 (19.66%) Data Strategy
9 23 (19.66%) Logical Data Model
9 23 (19.66%) Metadata Management
9 23 (19.66%) Physical Data Model
10 22 (18.80%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.08%) Java
2 26 (22.22%) Python
3 22 (18.80%) C#
4 18 (15.38%) SQL
5 7 (5.98%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.13%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.71%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.71%) Ruby
8 1 (0.85%) Bash
8 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 23 (19.66%) Azure Certification
3 19 (16.24%) Degree
4 4 (3.42%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.42%) PhD
5 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.56%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.13%) QA
2 3 (2.56%) COBIT
2 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.56%) ITGC
2 3 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.84%) Grafana
2 8 (6.84%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.56%) Ansible
4 2 (1.71%) CA Endevor
4 2 (1.71%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.71%) Puppet
4 2 (1.71%) Terraform
5 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 27 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.82%) Databricks
3 7 (5.98%) Adobe
4 5 (4.27%) Google
5 2 (1.71%) Teradata
6 1 (0.85%) Aruba
6 1 (0.85%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco
6 1 (0.85%) Mitel
6 1 (0.85%) NetApp
6 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.85%) VMware